slave-schooners

Updated: May 2, 2025

For a time the family peace was perfect, and Honoré, by a touch here to-day and a word there to-morrow, was ever lifting the name, and all who bore it, a little and a little higher; when suddenly, as in his father's day that dear Numa who knew how to sacrifice his very soul, as a sort of Iphigenia for the propitiation of the family gods as in Numa's day came the cession to Spain, so now fell this other cession, like an unexpected tornado, threatening the wreck of her children's slave-schooners and the prostration alike of their slave-made crops and their Spanish liberties; and just in the fateful moment where Numa would have stood by her, Honoré had let go.

George Washington Cable - The Grandissimes